1902 Team

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ARMY AND NAVY FOOTBALL; Cadets and Midshipmen WEST POINT PICKED TO WIN

Both Teams Did Their Final Practicing on Franklin Field –Annapolis Prepared to Make a Stiff Fight – New York Times – Nov 29, 1902
… the Army and Navy elevens will wind up the college football season of 19O2… University of Pennsylvania. in Philadelphia, was offered and accepted,…

ARMY DEFEATED NAVY AT FOOTBALL; West Point and Annapolis in Their Annual Gridiron Struggle Annapolis Cadets Scored Eight Points to the Winners’ Twenty-two — Prominent Government Officials Present. – New York Times – Nov 29, 1902

FOOTBALL SEASON OF 1902 ENDED.; Soft Weather Mainly Responsible for the Surprising Results of Some Contests — Scores of the Principal Games — Michigan’s String of Victories Still Unbroken — Yale’s Undisputed Championship — Brooklyn Schoolboys Will Play Another Game.
Football for the year 1902 is a thing of the past. The contests between the leading college teams have been well fought, the number of spectators drawn to the fields has been larger than in all previous years, and this widespread interest has been, intensified by well played and, in several cases, closely fought contests between the leading elevens.

The material below this point is a site a work area.

The '54 Crest

28th Infantry Regiment Black Lion Award is intended to go to the person on his team "who best exemplifies the character of Don Holleder: leadership, courage, devotion to duty, self-sacrifice, and - above all -

an unselfish concern for the team ahead of himself."

"The Army moves as a team, eats as a team, and fights as a team."

The '55 Crest

Don Holleder Remember - The Soldiers you will lead Always Come First

Vann and Holleder

9 Army A's

The '56 Crest

The '57 Crest

Can Do

Gen Van Fleet addressing the Corps prior to the Navy Game

Constructed under supervision of Jay Gould "54 and the Ord Dept from a German Rocket Gun captured at Kasserine Pass. First used in the Duke Game.

28th Infantry Regiment Black Lion Award is intended to go to the person on his team "who best exemplifies the character of Don Holleder: leadership, courage, devotion to duty, self-sacrifice, and - above all - an unselfish concern for the team ahead of himself."